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Re: absurdly slow git-diff

From: Davide Libenzi <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:37
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Davide Libenzi wrote:
quoted
With +/- 100 lines (200 lines window):

davide@alien:~$ time ./xdiff_test --diff 1 2 > /dev/null 

real    0m1.534s
user    0m1.466s
sys     0m0.040s
I assume the patch is something like the appended?

		Linus

---
 xdiff/xprepare.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xdiff/xprepare.c b/xdiff/xprepare.c
index e87ab57..4bebd76 100644
--- a/xdiff/xprepare.c
+++ b/xdiff/xprepare.c
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static int xdl_clean_mmatch(char const *dis, long i, long s, long e) {
 	 * Note that we always call this function with dis[i] > 1, so the
 	 * current line (i) is already a multimatch line.
 	 */
-	for (r = 1, rdis0 = 0, rpdis0 = 1; (i - r) >= s; r++) {
+	for (r = 1, rdis0 = 0, rpdis0 = 1; r < 100 && (i - r) >= s; r++) {
 		if (!dis[i - r])
 			rdis0++;
 		else if (dis[i - r] == 2)
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static int xdl_clean_mmatch(char const *dis, long i, long s, long e) {
 	 */
 	if (rdis0 == 0)
 		return 0;
-	for (r = 1, rdis1 = 0, rpdis1 = 1; (i + r) <= e; r++) {
+	for (r = 1, rdis1 = 0, rpdis1 = 1; r < 100 && (i + r) <= e; r++) {
 		if (!dis[i + r])
 			rdis1++;
 		else if (dis[i + r] == 2)
Yeah, similar. Mine is below. There's one less branch in the for loops.



- Davide

diff --git a/xdiff/xprepare.c b/xdiff/xprepare.c
index deba25a..3ebd87c 100644
--- a/xdiff/xprepare.c
+++ b/xdiff/xprepare.c
@@ -23,10 +23,9 @@
 #include "xinclude.h"
 
 
-
 #define XDL_KPDIS_RUN 4
 #define XDL_MAX_EQLIMIT 1024
-
+#define XDL_SIMSCAN_WINDOWN 100
 
 
 typedef struct s_xdlclass {
@@ -246,6 +245,18 @@ static int xdl_clean_mmatch(char const *dis, long i, long s, long e) {
 	long r, rdis0, rpdis0, rdis1, rpdis1;
 
 	/*
+	 * Limits the window the is examined during the similar-lines
+	 * scan. The loops below stops when dis[i - r] == 1 (line that
+	 * has no match), but there are corner cases where the loop
+	 * proceed all the way to the extremities by causing huge
+	 * performance penalties in case of big files.
+	 */
+	if (i - s > XDL_SIMSCAN_WINDOWN)
+		s = i - XDL_SIMSCAN_WINDOWN;
+	if (e - i > XDL_SIMSCAN_WINDOWN)
+		e = i + XDL_SIMSCAN_WINDOWN;
+
+	/*
 	 * Scans the lines before 'i' to find a run of lines that either
 	 * have no match (dis[j] == 0) or have multiple matches (dis[j] > 1).
 	 * Note that we always call this function with dis[i] > 1, so the
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